Objective: Students will learn that bees have 3 body parts and that the bee life cycle has 4 stages; egg, larva, pupa, and adult.
Academic Language: head, thorax, abdomen, life cycle, egg, larva, pupa, adult, and honeycomb
The lesson will begin with a Bee PowerPoint presentation using the Smartboard. Students will learn about the bee family, where bees live, characteristics of bees, and the bee life cycle using pictures and part of a youtube video about the bee life cycle.
The next part of the lesson will be to break students up into 4 groups to rotate through 4 different stations.
Station 1: Students will use the classroom computers to read several already chosen websites about bees and type interesting facts about bees into an already set-up google document. Explain to students that each group will add facts to the same document that is stored on the internet and can be opened and displayed on the Smartboard to share with the whole class during group sharing time at the end of the lesson.
Station 2: Students will draw a bee together on a large poster on the back table. The bee must show 3 main parts and each part must be labeled.
Station 3: Students will quietly watch a Hila Science Video about the Bee Life Cycle and a short video how bees communicate video using the classroom T.V. and VCR.
Station 4: Teacher monitors as students use the Smartboard to choose the correct pictures for the bee life cycle. Then students put the pictures in the correct order and lastly, students match the pictures to the correct name of each stage. Teacher has students vote where the life cycle takes place- choices are a leaf, honeycomb, under a rock, in a flower.
At the end of the lesson, the teacher will display the google docs document with all the interesting facts from each group on the Smartboard and call groups up to the front of the room to show their bee poster, share their facts, and share their bee life cycle diagram. The teacher will lead the rest of the class to check to make sure each group has created and labeled a bee with 3 main parts and a labeled bee life cycle with 4 stages. Once all groups have shared the teacher displays the survey about where the bee life cycle takes place and adds up the votes and give students the answer.
After listening to the lesson, watching the video, rotating through the 4 stations, and sharing--- students will have had several opportunities to learn the main body parts of a bee and the bee life cycle.
The next day each student will be given a formal performance assessment asking them to draw and label the 3 main body parts of a bee and draw and label the stages of the bee life cycle to see if they remembered what they learned the previous day.
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